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<td class="v">5:1</td>
<td>Hear ye this, O priests; and hearken, ye house of Israel; and give ye ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because ye have been a snare on Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.</td>
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<td class="v">5:2</td>
<td>And the revolters are profound to make slaughter, though I have been a rebuker of them all.</td>
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<td class="v">5:3</td>
<td>I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me: for now, O Ephraim, thou committest whoredom, and Israel is defiled.</td>
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<td class="v">5:4</td>
<td>They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God: for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them, and they have not known the LORD.</td>
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<td class="v">5:5</td>
<td>And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with them.</td>
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<td class="v">5:6</td>
<td>They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from them.</td>
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<td class="v">5:7</td>
<td>They have dealt treacherously against the LORD: for they have begotten strange children: now shall a month devour them with their portions.</td>
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<td class="v">5:8</td>
<td>Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah, and the trumpet in Ramah: cry aloud at Bethaven, after thee, O Benjamin.</td>
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<td class="v">5:9</td>
<td>Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.</td>
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<td class="v">5:10</td>
<td>The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.</td>
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<td class="v">5:11</td>
<td>Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgment, because he willingly walked after the commandment.</td>
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<td class="v">5:12</td>
<td>Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness.</td>
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<td class="v">5:13</td>
<td>When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.</td>
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<td class="v">5:14</td>
<td>For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.</td>
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<td class="v">5:15</td>
<td>I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.</td>
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